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A screenshot from Capcom's Pragmata video game.
Artificial Intelligence

Google Exec Says Your Favorite Video Games Are Secretly Made With AI

"Roughly nine out of 10 game developers told us 'yeah, we're using it.'"

By Frank Landymore

A gloved hand holding a mysterious object recovered from underwater that they described as a "golden orb." The background is blurred, showing some laboratory equipment.
Biology

Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out What That Golden Orb Found at the Bottom of the Pacific Ocean Actually Was

"This turned into a special case that required focused efforts and expertise of several different individuals."

By Frank Landymore

A former MrBeast executive filed a lawsuit against her former employer, alleging sexual harassment and workplace gender bias.
Future Society

New Lawsuit Is Not Looking Good for MrBeast

"If true, he’s f***ed."

By Victor Tangermann

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Artificial Intelligence

Trump’s Huge AI Data Center Project Is Falling Apart Behind the Scenes

The CEO may have "misunderstood where the supply chain is."

By Joe Wilkins

A person wearing a blue robe is pouring orange juice from a plastic bottle into a glass, but missing the glass and spilling it down their hand. The background is solid orange.
Food

You’ll Spill Your Juice When You Learn How Many of Florida’s Orange Trees This Incurable Bacteria Has Already Infected

"It could spread to the whole Gulf Coast."

By Joe Wilkins

During Wednesday's earnings call, Tesla CEO Elon Musk reiterated that millions of Tesla cars on the road can't drive themselves.
Electric Vehicles

Elon Musk Admits He Lied to Tesla Customers’ Faces for Years About Self-Driving

It was really expensive snake oil after all.

By Victor Tangermann

The FBI announced it's "spearheading the effort to look for connections" among at least ten scientists who died or disappeared.
Off-World

FBI Investigating Series of Deaths Among Top Scientists With Very Specific Specialties

Congress is looking for a "possible sinister connection between a string of mysterious deaths and disappearances."

By Victor Tangermann

Close-up black and white portrait of a Elon Musk with a serious expression, set against a vibrant red background with a grid pattern and a large light blue circle behind his head.
SpaceX

SpaceX’s IPO Plan Will Give Elon Musk Ironclad Rule Over the Resulting Empire

With great power, etc.

By Joe Wilkins

A white Starbucks paper cup with a brown sleeve is tipped over, spilling dark coffee against a solid orange background.
OpenAI

ChatGPT’s Tool for Ordering Starbucks Is So Staggeringly Bad That It’s Breaking Containment

Who is this for?

By Frank Landymore

A man wearing a white polo shirt and light-colored pants is sitting in a dark environment, illuminated by the light from a smartphone he is holding. The lighting casts a blueish hue on his face and shirt, with a red light highlighting part of his pants and the background. He has a mustache and short hair, and appears focused on the phone screen.
Anthropic

Certain Chatbots Vastly Worse For AI Psychosis, Study Finds

"There's no longer an excuse for releasing models that reinforce user delusions so readily."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A spiral galaxy with a bright core and faint spiral arms is shown against a dark background. To the right, there are three graphs.
Astrophysics

Astronomers Create Entire Synthetic Universe “Indistinguishable” From Our Own

"It is exhilarating to see 'galaxies' come out of our computer that look indistinguishable from the real thing."

By Frank Landymore

A close-up of a hand typing on a laptop keyboard, with the image rendered in a high-contrast red and dark blue color scheme. The background is dark, emphasizing the hand and keyboard.
Anthropic

Rogue Group Gains Access to Anthropic’s Dangerous New Mythos AI

That didn't take long.

By Frank Landymore

Close-up of a green-framed smart glasses lens reflecting a detailed grayscale image of an eye with visible wrinkles around it. The background features an orange grid pattern with a large yellow circle partially visible behind the glasses.
Facial recognition

Leak Shows ICE Planning to Use Facial Recognition Glasses to Identify Targets in Real Time

"It might be portrayed as seeking to identify illegal aliens on the streets, but the reality is that a push in this direction affects all Americans, particularly protestors."

By Joe Wilkins

Even SpaceX itself isn't fully sold on orbital data centers, an idea its mercurial CEO is pushing hard and prioritizing over everything else.
Off-World

SpaceX Admits AI Data Centers in Space May Be a Really Terrible Idea

No kidding.

By Victor Tangermann

A man with dark hair and a beard, wearing a button-up shirt with rolled-up sleeves, is looking at the camera with a slight smile. He is holding a smartphone in one hand and checking his smartwatch on the other wrist. The background features a large, semi-transparent clock face overlay with bold black numbers and hands, tinted in red and purple hues. The setting appears to be indoors with shelves and furniture faintly visible behind the clock overlay.
Anthropic

Today Is the Day Anthropic Promised That Fully Autonomous Employees Would Be Tearing Through the Business World

How time flies.

By Joe Wilkins

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said developers' productivity is going through the roof — while being overseen by a nagging, micromanaging AI boss.
Ethics

Nvidia CEO Says AI Will Be a Permanent Micromanaging Boss Who Never Stops Nagging You

Oh, great.

By Victor Tangermann

Florida is opening a criminal probe into ChatGPT maker OpenAI for its alleged role in a deadly mass shooting at Florida State University.
Ethics

Florida Opens Criminal Probe Into ChatGPT’s Role in School Shooting

"If that bot were a person they’d be charged with a principal in first degree murder."

By Victor Tangermann

A woman wearing a headscarf and a sleeveless top is looking at her smartphone with a concerned expression, her hand partially covering her mouth. The lighting casts a greenish tint over the scene, emphasizing her contemplative mood.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Chatbots Telling Cancer Patients to Try Useless Woo-Woo Treatments Instead of Chemotherapy

Why do chemo when you can try a "cancer-fighting diet" instead?

By Frank Landymore

New images released by the European Space Agency picture a shadowy presence spreading across the surface of Mars.
Mars

Scientists Puzzled by Huge Shadowy Blight Spreading Across Surface of Mars

A battle between light and dark.

By Frank Landymore

Meta will use tracking software on all of its US-based employees' computers that can track mouse movements and keystrokes to train AI models.
Ethics

Meta Installing Software on Employee Computers to Track Everything They Do, Feed the Data to AI

The company is saying the quiet part out loud.

By Victor Tangermann